Gun tragedies too distant to get Portman to change his mind: letter to the editor

I am profoundly disappointed in Sen. Rob Portman for voting to block a bill that included increased background checks for gun purchasers. He waited until he learned that his own son was gay to do the right thing on marriage equality. Is he going to wait until a senseless gun crime affects his own family to do the right thing on guns? Haven't enough other people's children been killed?

Background checks do not trample legal gun owners' rights. In fact, they protect and legitimize them.

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